PhotoVoiceThread Giving Students Voice Through Digital Storytelling Butte College Blackboard Community Exchange with Ryan Guy

Overview What is PhotoVoice? What is VoiceThread? What is PhotoVoiceThread? Assignment

What is PhotoVoice? The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. -Andre Kersetz Qualitative Research Method Community Based Participatory Research Created by Wang & Burris (1994) Used in many disciplines – Communication, – Public health, – Community Organization, – …

How PhotoVoice Works Community participants take photos – Goal is to represent community or POV via photo Photos collaboratively discussed Narratives developed to accompany photos Data is collapsed into thematic categories

What is VoiceThread? Online Collaboration Platform. Users Upload Content and discuss via comments – Text, – Audio, or – Video share/409/ share/409/

How Voice Thread Works Users create accounts Upload content – Images – Videos – PowerPoint Presentations Comment on content

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER PhotoVoiceThread

What is PhotoVoiceThread Assignment Prototype for using Photovoice in Digital Space Can be online, face-to-face, or mixed

The Basic Assignment Students form groups of 4-6. Students are tasked to go on a Mini-Adventure – Examples include Bidwell Park Butte College Wildlife Refuge Local Disc Golf Courses Chico Community Observatory Bidwell Mansion Honey Run Covered Bridge

The Basic Assignment Continued… Using camera phones, digital cameras, etc… students document their adventure. Post mini-adventure students meet to discuss photos captured. I like to use some in-class time. Collaboratively they create narratives surrounding their images. The following prompts can be helpful: – What story does this photo tell you? – What is going on outside this photo? – What theme does this photo fall into? Why?

Creating a PhotoVoiceThread Students sign up for free VoiceThread Accounts. Photos from the mini-adventure are uploaded to VoiceThread. Students tell the stories they created for their photos. – 10 narrated photos for a group of 5 – 4-5 minutes of storytelling per student

Submission Options: – Assignment (viewed by instructor) – Discussion Board or Blog (viewed by class) Choice leads to different presentations – Assignments tend to be more personal – Open content = more selective self-presentation

Submission Continued… Regardless of choice I recommend embeds: – 20-25% of students will make links private? – I provide a YouTube video showing the process. Feel free to use

TOUR OF ASSIGNMENT LM To Blackboard!

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